What’s the ideal tooling for this for videos?
Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
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Why would you get shadow banned? You think the format or backlinks would trigger bot detection systems?
I made an account on twitter/x specifically to promote my site at some point. I was shadowbanned by default and had to follow other people, like and share their posts and comment on other's post just to get my own posts to show up on people's feeds. When I checked again at some later point I was shadowbanned again. When I tried reddit I also noticed that I was shadowbanned by default and didn't even bother to do anyt…
The point of POSSE isn't just to blast every piece of crap you do everywhere with an automated system - those should be (shadow)banned
Think of it more like oldschool blog replies. Instead of replying with a 1000 word twitter message, post your answer on your blog and reply with a summary + link to your site instead.
But ALL social media sites downrank posts with links, that's why the "link in comments" shit is so common... They do not want you leaving their algorithmic feed to read stuff elsewhere.
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#223What blog systems (either self hosted or easy to move) do folks recommend nowadays? I'm not interested in spending much time tinkering and updating, but have enough sysadmin experience to host one myself. Was last using blogger, though trying to de-googlify my life slowly
Hugo is my choice, but any static site generator is good enough. You can build one yourself in an afternoon if you don't need anything fancy.
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#224Because RSS readers are coming up in comments, if you are using one, which one would you recommend? For Linux AND Android?
Self-hosted FreshRSS to grab the content and reading on a Proper Browser. NetNewsWire as a mobile reader that connects to FreshRSS.
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#225The concept seems trivial and widely used by many existing bloggers (and the default for most media outlets) so I feel like I'm missing something.
I also thought this and didn’t get the point. But the link was published 2013 and maybe for users not used to personal blogs but only social media nowadays it’s worth mentioning…
People spend immense amounts of time writing intricate comments and guides on Meta platforms and nowhere else.
They wouldn't even need to host them anywhere, just have the same text on a device they own and control.
So fucking much is lost when a FB group just suddenly disappears along with all of the time people have spent writing on them.
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Have you looked at https://posseparty.com/ as a possible option? Supports integrations with those platforms and more, and "all" it needs is an Atom feed!
Ooh I hadn't seen that. I'm still hung up on character limits - I want to make sure the summary I include isn't truncated with ... and is instead the right length for that particular platform.
I created POSSE Party because I had similar concerns. Truncation and spacing are highly customizable. You can add a posse:post sidecar element containing JSON that formats exact presentation for each platform exactly as you want it. The built-in truncation can be configured at the account level. And how you count characters, naturally, differs by platform, which the app handles pretty well.
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#227I'd like to have a POSSE setup for video with a landing page, a static image and transcript, a download button for very slowly downloading the video, metadata and links to instantly-available external copies so that I can channel as much of the server costs that video entails to the big platforms. Has anybody written about adapting POSSE for videos?
POSSE Party (http://posseparty.com) supports syndicating YouTube Shorts and Instagram reels, but trying to syndicate longer form video just didn't make sense IMO
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
$60/mo for a personal website is insane.
I agree. To be more clear, that $60 is an estimate for a small configuration and includes serverless infrastructure to process 500,000 requests per month, plus storage, including a 20gb sql database and 100gb of object storage to serve video and images. More ideal for an application. You run the app in a container and only get charged for the requests, the sql database is persistent, so that cost $20/month and object…
Let me describe my setup, so that you can compare. I use a Contabo VPS for around 5 USD month to host my Wagtail (django-based) site. The DB also runs on the same infra and since it's SQLite I can back it up externally.
I probably wouldn't be able to handle 0.5M requests, but I am nowhere near getting them. If I start approaching such numbers I'll consider an upgrade.
Check out Wagtail if you'd like to have even more batteries included for your site, it was a delight building my site with it:
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#229I'd prefer to write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media. I imagine I'd also want to get an overview of - or make an ad-hoc post from - one of several accounts on one of several platforms.
I came across Posse Party and Postiz, both of which are self-hosted. It doesn't seem like either is built for this use case.
Which direction would you go in?
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#230This parallels the learning paradigm of diving into some topic, write a blog post to solidify, practice, demonstrate your knowledge, and finally promote via social media. Which parallels the origin story of sharing your scientific research. It's The Way of knowledge on the internet.
I've noted here before a course from Arlington UT about this on Edx "Data, Analytics, and Learning" (2014).
Nice to have another way of describing this pattern of writing and publishing, even if it does have a funny name POSSE.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46015121 https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/19117279/CSC...